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Gemini Cricket
07-07-2006, 04:23 PM
...you find a squirrel skull in your freezer.

I'm getting ready to make dinner and I get my crowbar and icepick and go through our overpacked freezer. I look for the frozen salmon that we got from Costco and find other things instead. Ice cream, frozen bagels (also from Costco), white fish from Trader Joe's, buffalo burgers, squirrel skull in a plastic bag, frozen orange juice, ice...

You know, several years ago, I would have been all 'Holy Jesus on a pogo stick! What the hell is this? I can't believe it!' but now I'm all 'That's nice'.

He found it in a park near us the other day. Decomposing dead squirrel. After several days of watching it rot, and after the sun bleached it perfectly, he collected it. Said it was a perfect specimen. Froze it to kill some bacteria thingamajiggies.

He's going to preserve it and take it to work.

:)

Does this make me Igor?

:D
Moonliner
07-07-2006, 04:26 PM
... And you know you've spent too much time posting when...

You know this is not the first time frozen squirrels (http://www.loungeoftomorrow.com/LoT/showpost.php?p=57827&postcount=2)have come up on this site...
Gemini Cricket
07-07-2006, 04:29 PM
You know this is not the first time frozen squirrels (http://www.loungeoftomorrow.com/LoT/showpost.php?p=57827&postcount=2)have come up on this site...
OMG! I forgot about that. Hysterical.
:D
Not Afraid
07-07-2006, 06:06 PM
I'm at the Apple store, getting "serviced" and I just laughed out loud. Now I'm embarassed and trying to explain myself.
Prudence
07-07-2006, 07:03 PM
You're getting "serviced" at an apple store and you're worried about explaining *laughter*?!
Kevy Baby
07-07-2006, 07:12 PM
Well, if she is getting serviced, it doesn't sound like there is much else to worry about!
RStar
07-08-2006, 08:35 AM
I'm at the Apple store, getting "serviced"
Oh, but I like your red hair!
Gn2Dlnd
07-08-2006, 09:03 AM
And you know you live with Jeffrey Dahmer when you find chicken skull in your freezer.
Gemini Cricket
07-10-2006, 10:19 AM
I added something of my own to the freezer. I found a bug that looks like a furry centipede crawling on our door. It's tiny, but has many, many legs. We both have no idea what it is. We're going to show it to our friend who studies bugs.
cirquelover
07-10-2006, 10:58 AM
No bug will ever live in my freezer!!

Now that I've publicly said that my son will become enamored by bugs and guess what I'll have in my freezer:eek:

I don't think I could live with a scientist if that's what it entails. I'd much rather have all the computer parts and pieces that come with living with a computer geek! Even that drives me nuts though!
I would freak if I thawed something out for dinner and found it to be a skull, bug, etc....
Not Afraid
07-10-2006, 11:02 AM
Poor bug.
Gemini Cricket
07-10-2006, 11:08 AM
He's going to preserve it and add it to the collection...
SzczerbiakManiac
07-10-2006, 11:17 AM
after the sun bleached it perfectly, he collected it. Said it was a perfect specimen. Froze it to kill some bacteria thingamajiggies.Would boiling it not achieve the same (if not better) effect?
Or would that damage the skull?
Capt Jack
07-10-2006, 11:30 AM
...you find a squirrel skull in your freezer.

squirrel skull in a plastic bag...

:D


dibs on the next one!
Gemini Cricket
07-10-2006, 12:35 PM
Would boiling it not achieve the same (if not better) effect?
Or would that damage the skull?
I forget. There was a reason freezing was better. I'll ask him tonight.
Kevy Baby
07-10-2006, 10:08 PM
We have several deceased bearded dragons in our (outdoor) freezer. When one of our rescues doesn't make it, we feel each one deserves a proper burial. We insist on the desert since their native land (the Australian Outback) is their natural habitat.

Yeah, its weird.
wendybeth
07-10-2006, 10:09 PM
We have several deceased bearded dragons in our (outdoor) freezer. When one of our rescues doesn't make it, we feel each one deserves a proper burial. We insist on the desert since their native land (the Australian Outback) is their natural habitat.

Yeah, its weird.

No, it's not. It's very cool of you.
Not Afraid
07-10-2006, 10:11 PM
Send them to Lashbear. ;)
wendybeth
07-10-2006, 10:13 PM
Ooooh, wonderful idea! Of course, you want to warn him ahead of time.....:eek:
Not Afraid
07-10-2006, 10:14 PM
Include a corn dog. He won't mind.
wendybeth
07-10-2006, 10:15 PM
Damn you, NA.

(sigh) Brb- got to get the Windex again.
Kevy Baby
07-10-2006, 10:19 PM
Send them to Lashbear. ;)He would barbecue them.